Academy rowers honored with scholarship

Courtesy https://culverathletics.com/

CULVER — Two Culver Academies rowers have been awarded a scholarship honoring Culver Military Academy graduate and Marine, Andrew K. Stern ’98, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. He is credited with saving the lives of his fellow Marines.

Culver Girls Academy senior Kiersten Blacker (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and CMA first classman Wallace Blum (Belfast, Maine) were named recipients of the 1st Lt. Andrew K. Stern Scholarship and Rowing Award.
The scholarships and awards are given annually to a first-classman and a senior on the rowing team who best exemplify five central character traits that Stern exhibited: dedication, integrity, honesty, respect, and joyfulness.
The scholarship is presented at the Andrew Stern Memorial Service Ceremony, where the team gathers to remember Stern’s life.
Stern was a four-year Culver cadet in Battery C, served as Artillery battalion commander, and was a four-year rower and co-captain of Culver’s crew team.
After graduating from Culver in 1998, Stern matriculated to the University of Tennessee and competed as a rower and later served as a coach on the crew team.
Upon graduation in 2002, Stern was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps.